Re: [PATCH] bash prompt: add option to disable for a repository

From: SZEDER Gábor <szeder@ira.uka.de>
Date: Nov 26, 2013, 00:26 UTC
Message-ID: <20131126002625.GA9061@goldbirke>
In-Reply-To: <20131125234344.GA4212@google.com>

On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 03:43:44PM -0800, Jonathan Nieder wrote:

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> Heikki Hokkanen wrote:
> 
> > If running git config on each prompt seems too expensive, do you have
> > any better ideas?
> 
> Perhaps a GIT_PS1_NOT_FOR_THESE_REPOS=repo1:repo2:repo3 setting would
> work.
> 
> __git_ps1 would do the one 'git rev-parse --git-dir --...' to find the
> repo corresponding to the cwd and then could match against the
> configured list to decide whether to return early.

That would be a better interface, but the implementation must cope with colons in paths on Unixes, case insensitive file systems, and different path representations on Windows (C:\path\to\repo vs. /c/PaTh/To/RePo). I'm not sure we want to go there.

Gábor